Jay Sata asked above .......
"Why was the team plus key player Ewald, hidden from all the receptions and public events? Why was the scene at Sydney designed to hide him from the media?"
This may have been, at least partially, answered by TC-T herself in the 2016 Cobham Lecture from where it was reported "The low point was possibly Indonesia where her chase aircraft was detained for a month for flying through a restricted area"
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